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The Structure of Science (1961)
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It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.
Ernest Nagel
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Ernest Nagel
Born:
November 16, 1901
Died:
September 20, 1985
(aged 83)
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